billiard ball


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Noun1.billiard ball - ball used in playing billiardsbilliard ball - ball used in playing billiards  
ball - round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games; "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"; "the mayor threw out the first ball"; "the ball rolled into the corner pocket"
cue ball - the ball that the billiard player or pool player strikes with his cue
object ball - the billiard ball that is intended to be the first ball struck by the cue ball
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billiard ball

npalla da biliardo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
Towels, sheets, shirts, and slippers, along with toothbrushes, wisp-brooms, soap, the missing billiard ball, and all the lost and forgotten trifles of many months, came to light.
The boy with the billiard ball said that he had never seen it in his life before, and hazarded the suggestion that it had got into his box through some mysterious and occultly evil agency.
The yellow shoes looked as though each had half a billiard ball in the toe, and the entire tops were perforated with many diverging lines in an attempt for the decorative.
The heroic woman swallowed a playful and inconvenient object like a billiard ball, which had tried to jump out of her throat.
The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
Here and there were new brick houses and shops, just set up by bustling, driving, and eager men of traffic from the Atlantic States; while, on the other hand, the old French mansions, with open casements, still retained the easy, indolent air of the original colonists; and now and then the scraping of a fiddle, a strain of an ancient French song, or the sound of billiard balls, showed that the happy Gallic turn for gayety and amusement still lingered about the place.
The tension of expectation could be measured by the profundity of the silence that fell upon the very click of the billiard balls. As to Schomberg, he looked extremely frightened; he hated mortally any sort of row (fracas he called it) in his establishment.
A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle with a soiled glove twisted round the neck, to allow of its being grasped more surely in its capacity of an offensive weapon; a broken cane; a card-case without the top; an empty purse; a watch-guard snapped asunder; a handful of silver, mingled with fragments of half-smoked cigars, and their stale and crumbled ashes;--these, and many other tokens of riot and disorder, hinted very intelligibly at the nature of last night's gentlemanly frolics.
The click of billiard balls could be heard in the distance.
Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi successfully removed a brain tumor the size of a billiard ball from a 34-year-old man.
Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi have removed a brain tumour the size of a billiard ball from a 34-year-old man, ending his 10-year search for a cure to his headaches and intermittent seizures.